Making a cereal breakfast food.



HENRY ANHALTZER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

' MAKING A CEREAL BREAKFAST FQOID.

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Pa tent-ed No". 1910.

Application file l January 4, 1909. Serial N 0. 470,574.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ANHALTZER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Making a Cereal Breakfast Food, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process of making a cereal breakfast food, and has f or its ob]ect to provide a process for expedltiously making a cereal food that will be highly nutritious as a food stuff, palatable and pleasing to the taste.

My invention aims to make a food stuff from wheat, rye, corn or a similar grain, and add to the same certain ingredients that will add to the digestive qualities of a food stuff without impairing the wholesomeness of the product.

My invention involves a process wherein ingredients are separately prepared and then collectively treated, to provide a food stuff from which greasy substances like fat and butter are el minated, and a product provided that will not deteriorate the wholesomeness of the roduct as a health food.

The first step in my rocess is the treatment of the basic ingre ients and as an instance, I use wheat flour and an av'oirdupois pound of flour is mixed with cold water,-

about six ounces, to produce a plastic or dough like substance having a consistency somewhat like that of putty. Prior to placing the water in the flour, I dissolve four grains of pepsin in the water, and then thoroughly Il'llX the water with the flour. Since chemical pure pepsin will digest three thou sand times its weight in food, therefor four grains of pe sin represent the digesting power to twe ve thousand grains of food, and since one pound of flour Weighs only seven thousand grains, it is obvious that this reparation will not only be easy to digest, llut at the same time will aid the digestion of other food consumed along with it. Of course, the proportion of the pepsin can be altered to a certain degree, without im airing the wholesomeness of the product. fter the plastic is thus prepared, I convert it with the aid of s ecial machinery 'into thin flakelike films, epositing them upon perforated porcelain or other suitable receptacles and ry them in a vacuum or ordinary oven at a heat of about -to degrees centigrade, which will consume about 10 to 30 minutes of time according to the construction of the oven employed. After thoroughly dry, I place them in a metallic and enameled or other suitable drum or retort, which is kept in a continuous revolving motion in an especially. built oven and heated until all the flakes are uniformly roasted, which WlllbG accomplished in from 15 to 30 minutes of time, according to quantity deposited in drum for roasting purposes.

The next step in my process is to prepare a llqUKl extract or ingredient. For th1s'- ration commonly known as wiite co These liquid in redients to be hereinafter termed white cotl ee, are reduced with the aid of suitable machinery into a owder, the preccss involved being as fo lows ;-The white coffee is placed in a specially designed vacuum evaporating vessel, builtin a man- To the fil- I ner that no aroma can escape. The white coffee is evaporated with a heat of approximately (50 degrees centigrade, and is evaporated under constant stirring which can be accomplished automatically. After the white coffee is of a consistency of thick syrup, it is cooled in an air tight receptacle, and by reason of its sugary and fatty chemical compounds, the white coffee plastic is gummy and of a tough texture. This tough and gummy resultant isnow mixed with finely powdered sugar b kneading the latter into the former to su ciently transform the resultant from a plastic and gummy condition to a porous and brittle state, allowing the matter to be cut .or otherwise sha ed into granules by .a suitable machine. T e granules are then placed'upon, porcelain or other suitable receptacles and inserted into a vacuum or ordinary oven and dried by heat to approximately 50 degrees oentigrade; Re-

uiring about 10 to 30 minutes according to t 1e construction of the oven. After the granules are fully dried, said granules are ground to a fine powder which will dissolve readily and possess the aroma of freshly prepared cofl'ee, andwhich can be kept for any the coffee powder, rendering both in one,

homogeneous body. This is accomplished by the following process;Since the coffee powder contains a large proportion of sugar and since some of the chemlcal components of coffee as also of milk are fat and sugar,

- which have the tendency to melt in heat, I

plainly plunge the cofl'ee powder'upon the roasted cereal flakes while they are still'hot and keep the drum revolving until the product cools, thereby causing the powder to mix with the cereal flakes thoroughly, and adhere to the flakes crustlike.

A cereal prepared by this process will keep indefinitely and will render at all and any time a deliciously flavored and palatable, wholesome rich food, the incrustation of which, when milk or any other suitable liquid, (even water) is poured over it, will dissolve immediately, in which state the cereal is usually consumed. Certain brands of this finished product for instance, the one incrusted with chocolate or cocoa, I prefer to scent, aside of its inorustation, with suitable essential extracts, like .vanilla, etc., imparting to it a still higher degree of palatability. v

. As the finished-product in its inerustation contains milk and sugar, both of which are initself highly nutritious, they increase to a very high egree thev nourishing qualities of the cereal food product.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, is

A process for manufacturing a food product consisting in converting a plastic substance composed of a cereal, water and pepsin into thin films, then thoroughly drying the films, then roasting the films and then while maintaining the films in a heated condition applying thereto a flavoring powder consisting of desiccated coffee, sugar and milk, while keeping the mass in a state of agitation and continuing the agitation until the films have become cool and a uniformly incrusting coating is formed thereon.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY ANHALTZ RJ lVitnesses K. H. BUTLER, R. L. FARRINGTON. 

